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Audi going to the moon; Audi lunar e-quattro rover

Green Car Congress

Audi is supporting the German team (the “ Part-Time Scientists ”) in the Google Lunar XPRIZE (GLXP) competition with its know-how in several fields of technology from quattro all-wheel drive and lightweight construction to electric mobility and piloted driving. —Luca de Meo, Audi Board Member for Sales and Marketing. —Prof.

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Audi displays new AI project at NIPS: mono camera with semantic segmenting and depth estimates creates precise 3D model of environment

Green Car Congress

Audi is exhibiting an innovative pre-development project to support autonomous driving at the NIPS 2017 conference in Long Beach, California, this week. A project team from the Audi subsidiary Audi Electronics Venture (AEV) developed a mono camera that uses artificial intelligence to generate an extremely precise 3D model of the environment.

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Audi sponsors AI conference NIPS 2016, demonstrates how car develops intelligent parking strategies

Green Car Congress

Audi is a sponsor this year of the annual Conference and Workshop on Neural Information Processing Systems ( NIPS ) and is showcasing its expertise at the conference on artificial intelligence for the first time. The company is the only automaker represented at NIPS 2016 with its own stand and a showcase. NVIDIA is also a NIPS 2016 sponsor.)

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The irrational argument against government intervention with EVs & ICE vehicle bans

Plug In India

Here are countries that have announced ICE Car bans Norway - 2025 South Korea - 2025 Belgium - 2026 Austria - 2027 Slovenia - 2030 Iceland - 2030 Netherlands - 2030 Denmark - 2030 Ireland - 2030 Israel - 2030 Sweden - 2030 India - 2030 Washington - 2030 Scotland - 2032 Japan - 2035 United Kingdom - 2035 Canada - 2035/2040 China - 2040 The European (..)

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Pike Research makes 10 electric vehicle predictions for 2013

Green Car Congress

Battery swapping pioneer Better Place, which saw key executives leave in 2012, has failed to capture the expected number of subscribers to its EV service in the initial launch market of Israel and borrowed money to continue the expensive build-out of battery swap stations in Denmark. BMW will begin to sell its long awaited BEV (the i3).

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Electric cars back on track?

Plugs and Cars

This year Renault announced a partnership with Project Better Place to manufacture electric cars for Shai Agassi’s ambitious plan to create discreet markets, beginning in Israel and Denmark. Audi here and BMW here are reported to be taking another look at all-electrics. to commence in 2012.

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Greenlings: Benefits of charging stations vs. battery swaps vs. home charging

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Therefore, until we get quick-charge batteries -- based on new breakthroughs, Ill take a WAG and estimate that we will have real 5-minute quick-charge batteries in perhaps 10 years -- we are likely to get our juice mostly from our home chargers. gallon Speculawyer on DOE announces $41.9